When I first saw Batman: The Brave and the Bold, I thought it took Batman's "Batgod" status a little too far. After watching the episode "Game Over for Owlman," in which Owlman uses Ted Kord's BB Gun to disable Jaime Reyes, it hit me - this is a Batman to whom Reed Richards is not useless. All of the crazy, outlandish, un-Batman-y gadgets Batman uses in this show - mecha, lightsabers, space flight capable jetpack, etc. - are the results of Batman augmenting his arsenal with additions copied or suggested from his fellow superheroes! This actually makes more sense than the comic Batman sticking to light body armor and low technology despite spending so much time around mega-geniuses and alien technology. —The Evil Dr Bolty

Even more fitting that such a Batman would be acquainted with so many other heroes. Associating himself with such diverse individuals gives him access to a wealth of different weapons, skills and technology from all manner of worlds.

Well, shoot, in the late '50s and early '60s, Gotham City was renowned for being a pleasant, prosperous place with a fairly low crime rate, because Batman had cleaned up the city. Sure, there were weird aliens wandering aimlessly through town every couple of months, but yeah, by and large, the "silliest" Batman was by far the most effective one. — Your Obedient Serpent

It isn't like comic! Batman isn't Crazy-Prepared either. Batman: The Brave and the Bold just took 'Batman can beat anyone with enough prep time' and turned it into 'Batman has a lightsaber and a car that turns into a giant robot, just in case.'

Meaning he had more than enough prep time.

I recently had one of these moments regarding everyone's favorite Ensemble Darkhorse The Music Meister. Setting to spoilers for everyone that hasn't seen his episode yet: so, in the final music number, we are treated to a montage of his hypnotized victims stealing everything and anything insight; at first, Fridge Logic sets in when you think there's no possible way he could ever need or collect all that is being take. But this is where the Brilliance comes into play: He KNOWS this. After his show stopping number ends, people will be confused and maybe even slightly panicked; meaning that it would take weeks, or even months, to figure out everything that was missing and what was just taken by the hypnotized masses. By that time, the Music Meister could be literally ANYWHERE in the world with whatever he felt he could take without being noticed. Too subtle for his character you say? That leads to another moment of Brilliance; that 'character' is an act! (a performance, if you will). He plays up the camp factor by singing all the time (when vocalizing at the pitch needed to hypnotize people would be enough), wearing ever more extravagant costumes and just being as over the top as possible to hide just how subtle he can be (and possibly because he honestly enjoys it). Suddenly; an already epic character seems EVEN MORE Awesome.

Also regarding the Music Meister: his appearance is very similar to the Music Master, from the Justice League two-parter "Legends". He was part of the Injustice Guild, the evil counterpart to the Justice Guild, which was the alternate-universe Justice League with characters slightly different to their "real" DCAU counterparts- Catman instead of Batman, Black Siren instead of Black Canary, and so on. It therefore makes perfect sense that the same villain in Batman's universe would be called the Music Meister instead. The Music Master also had a European accent (I'm not entirely sure which country it was), so swapping his accent to American and the name to German might have been a further play on the universe-switch theme. — Eruvadhril

Starro was able to successfully assimilate the people of every world except Earth (because of all the heroes), and Claramar. Why couldn't he assimilate the people of Claramar? They have no faces to latch on to. —Freiberg

It had never occurred to this Troper until rewatching it the tenth time, that at the very end of the Grand Finale, it's the Music Meister playing piano at the after show party.

During his alliteration battle with Penguin in "Night of the Batmen!" Aquaman is unable to think of a bird name that starts with "G". Now calling someone a Goose is a common enough insult, BUT, The first bird Aquaman called Penguin? An albatross. Which is a SEA BIRD. Aquaman, Idiot Hero he may be, would know what an albatross is, unlike a goose which is much more inland for the King of seas to take notice of.

In the Emperor Joker episode, Batman tells Bat-Mite that Joker's in a specially-designed cell and won't be breaking out any time soon. Bat-Mite simply snaps his fingers, Batman gets a call, and guess who's on the loose again? Bat-Mite loves seeing Batman in action, right? Suddenly Arkham's Cardboard Prison reputation makes a lot more sense.

Wong Fei from Return of the Fearsome Fangs is probably the worst sensei I ever seen. He ever insults his pupils no matter if they do well or bad, claims they kneel him like an attention whore... no wonder if only ONE of FIVE students completed his training... also just because "the plot demand it".

Possibly unintentional, but in "The Revenge of the Reach," Jaime, ends the fight with The Reach's army of scarabs by overloading the Scarabs with Green energy he got from guy, as he says "There's always Hope." In the comics,the Blue Lantern Corps represents Hope, and they are at their most powerful when aided by a Green Lantern.

In "Time Out for Vengeance!" Cave Batman laughs at the idea of a Batcave for a hideout. This is because hiding in a cave in his time was like using a crowed mall as a hide-out in our time.

In "Emperor Joker," when Batman decides the best method of defeating the Joker's nigh omnipotent powers is to use his mind, it seems a bit odd at first until you realize Batmite's first appearance in the series has him being defeated by the fact that his own imagination was running away with itself, despite the fact that he could use his powers to get himself out of a jam, Batmite didn't and was even shown later to be struggling to use them to set things right. If BTBaTB Batmite follows the same logic as Batmite in the comics with his powers being controlled by a part of his brain, it's possible that Mind truly is stronger than magic, as a mind overrun by panic or fear can't use the 5th dimensional abilities, Joker wasn't in any danger at first in Batman's mind, and allowed himself to give into fear when Batman suggested he would be completely sane.

Am I the only one who realized just how dangerous The Music Meister from Batman: The Brave and the Bold is?! Now, don't get me wrong, the episode was a delight, but hear me out. Throughout the episode, he took control of people just by SINGING. By doing a musical number through Gotham, WHILE RUNNING FROM THE BATMAN, he turned the entire city into his slaves. Heck, in the opening, if Batman hadn't stopped them, the three heroes and three villains he had control of, who he had control of even before he first APPEARED, would have done a kickline right into a rocketblast at Music Meister's orders. Even with Batman's Plot Device earplugs in them, AQUAMAN, Green Arrow, and Black Canary were STILL singing, which implies that his voice isn't just hypnotic, but viral! He was literally just one person away from ruling the entire world at the end...

...God, if he got into the main DCU, and took control of Oracle and Calculator...

Oh, it gets bloody worse people. Remember that punk musical number "Death Trap"? Remember how since he had Batman and Black Canary tied up they were clearly out cold for an extended period of time? Music Meister just had to drop the Villain Ball for 5 seconds and think "You know, instead of putting them in this overly complex trap, why don't I just TAKE OUT HIS EAR PLUGS!" If he had just rolled slightly higher on that wisdom check he would've WON... for good. Granted, we wouldn't be in misery.

However on the bright side, since the world stopped singing right after his microphone blew, he would've lost control as soon as he had to go to bed.

Unless he recorded a track of his singing, and implanted it in his microphone.

Batman rigged up his suit to work as a tazser in the event that someone tries to take it off him in one movie, which the Joker(?) learned the hard way. Why he didn't take CANARY'S earplugs, though...

What about his potential imprisonment? Would he have to be gagged 24/7? Would they use that throat-constricting drug that Batman developed in the comics (JLA - Tower of Babel in case you were wondering)?

Maybe Batman finagled a collar that lets him speak, but blocks the special pitch? Still horrifying, considering there are dog collars that do that, but it's a little less horrifying than being completely mute in a place like Blackgate or Arkham...

In the first part of "The Siege of Starro!", Faceless Hunter looks like he killed off Red Tornado. Absolutely no one mentions looking for him at all. What the Hell, Hero? indeed.

If it makes you feel any better, Tornado turns up just fine during the afterparty in "Mitefall".

At the beginning of "Trials of the Demon!", Scarecrow genetically alters Gotham's pumpkins to emit fear gas when heated. Obviously, this makes jack-o-lanterns dangerous, but this also includes a fall staple: pumpkin pies. How many people would go insane simply from cooking their pumpkins?

It's hinted as a portrait in the bar in "The Joker: The Vile and the Villianous" but apparently one of the portraits is the third Clayface Preston Payne... this proves that this Clayface is the one that exists in Brave and the Bold's continuity... to those who haven't read the comics, the first Clayface was a deranged actor, the second and well known Clayface is a shapeshifter, but the third one is one big walking Body Horror who happens to melt anyone he touches!

They couldn't breathe water when their continent sank, only the dome saved them. They then altered themselves to live underwater.

Did they know Atlantis would sink or did they build the dome after it sank or while it was sinking?

I believe the canon answer (from the comics) is that the dome had been built to protect from other threats, and just happened to work in this situation beautifully.

Maybe they just find walking easier and more convenient than swimming all the time.

It makes a lot of things more convenient - they wouldn't have to invent waterproof ink and paper, they wouldn't have to make sure all their technology and stuff is 100% waterproof as well, they can use electricity without shocking everyone in the nearby area, they can host surface dwellers such as Batman or diplomats much more easily, etc.

Why did AQUAMAN's plan in "Mystery In Space" involve borrowing Earth's moon for an eclipse, and not one of the other billion or so chunks of dirt in the universe of roughly the same size that wouldn't cause untold devastation to the planet's inhabitants?

And why didn't the Eye of Zarod have a battery backup?

How does Bat-Mite, the biggest Batman fan ever, not recognize Harley Quinn? (You'd think someone who can traverse dimensions would be open to the idea of a Canon Immigrant...)

Given her redesign as a 20s gangster moll, he may have thought she was another Joker henchwoman.

This is especially jarring as in the same episode he briefly waxes nostalgia over the Batman: The Animated Series episode "The Laughing Fish" which Harley Quinn was featured in.

I don't know if this would count, but did anyone else notice that in "The Long Arm of the Law," Batman says that Plastic Man has lost 2.2 "percent" of himself, but the screen of the device he's holding is in grams?! Either Plas is exactly 100 grams (which is unlikely), or the creators of this show had no idea what they were doing. —Tropers/Freud

Or Batman has a countermeasure in case of a rogue Plastic Man which involves his exact mass, and Bat's is a genius who can do math on the fly.

Also In Emperor Joker, when Joker breaks out of prison, Batman tracks him down via the Batcycle. Bat-Mite rides along with him, which begs the question, why even use it if Bat-Mite can just teleport them there. Well, he could, but then he wouldn't be able to ride along with Batman.

As pointed out on the Story-Breaker Team-Up page, the fact that Sherlock is able to keep at all with Batman, despite the latter having over a century of crime-fighting advances to draw on, is actually pretty impressive.

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